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This Element is an excerpt from Who Can You Trust With Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid Dishonest Advisors (9780137033652), by Bonnie Kirchner. Available in print and digital formats.

“How could I not have known?” What you can learn from Bonnie Kirchner’s tragic, deeply-personal experience with one of the nation’s most notorious financial scammers

For years, I had been reporting on financial scandals. I would cringe every time I had to do another story on a corrupt financial planner taking advantage of unsuspecting citizens, discrediting the field to which I’d dedicated much of my life. Little did I know, my own life was encased in a bubble of deception that was about to burst...